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Emma Reynolds
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Children's book author-illustrator #kidlit
MG Graphic Novel #DrawnToChangeTheWorld Picture book #AmaraAndTheBats 🦇📚🏳️‍🌈♾ AuDHD
Loves #Bats .She/Her. Rep'd by Thao Le

Website: emmareynoldsillustration.com
Links: linktree.com/emmaillustrate
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Hi Brian! I live and breath bats, this project sounds amazing :D
Samples below, and even more bat examples and more in my portfolio and online shop:
www.emmareynoldsillustration.com

My latest work (yellow piece) uses pan pastels & coloured pencils.
An illustration of a young girl with light brown skin and long dark hair is smiling proudly holding her book of bat facts against a red wall covered in her bat pictures Bats swoop and fly above little girl Amara who looks up in awe! Cover of picture book ‘Amara and the Bats’ by Emma Reynolds, three kids hold up signs and bat cut outs to say ‘save the bats!’ at dusk. Behind them is a city scape and beside them are tall trees. A pan pastel & coloured pencil illustration of a little girl drawing at her desk. The yellow sweeps out around her as her inspiration flows.
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I am so excited to announce my next picture book ‘Orla and the Jellyfish’ 🥹🪼 Coming Spring 2027! I can’t wait to introduce to you to Orla and Suki, characters very dear to my heart who are both AuDHD like me 🥹🥰 I grew up near the sea and this book means so much to me 🥰🌊 #kidlitUK #kidlit #booksky
Book deal announcement with illustrated happy jellyfish below around the title ‘Orla and the Jellyfish’. The above deal announcement reads ‘Julia McCarthy at Atheneum has bought Orla and the Jellyfish by #KidLit4Climate founder Emma Reynolds (Amara and the Bats), a picture book about a girl who loves the misunderstood jellyfish at her local beach and rallies her community to protect the ocean, invest in renewables, and end plastic pollution. Publication is set for Spring 2027; Thao Le at Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency did the deal for world English rights.’
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Woo my new CatBus prints are up!
✨Save 20% with code COSYSEASON until 6th Oct

And shipping to the US is back on :3
I’m the sole earner atm so any shares are much appreciated 🥰❤️

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Text reads: Save 20% Use checkout code: COSYSEASON and below is a photo of my white female hand holding a print of an illustrated smiling orange bat bus with the cast of characters inside. The print is held against a house plant.
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Birmingham looking beautiful this afternoon!
A photo of Birmingham city centre with a rich blue sky with dramatic clouds and a shadow cast on the ground.
August 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Last day of my Spring S🍃le today! And pet portraits will also be closing tonight at 10pm BST, while I head into ✨deadline season✨ and focus :) They will re-open in the autumn in the lead up to the holidays 🎄Thank you so much for all your support always!
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Five bat stickers are laid out on a sun dappled patch of green plants on the ground.
June 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Gamerville graphic novel cover by Johnnie Christmas
May 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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🐾Pet Portraits are back open!🐾
As is my shop - with a big juicy sale on 😻

Treat yourself or someone you love with an original pencil & watercolour portrait of your special companions ❤️
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#artsky #kidlitUK #illustration
Coloured pencil and watercolour painting of a cute white and tabby cat with green eyes and a pink nose loafing on the grass Coloured pencil and watercolour drawing of a cute small black brown and white dog sitting
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Happy #WorldBookDay 🥳📚🦇 Had a wonderful time on Tues with Leeds SLS visiting 2 lovely schools & learning all about bats with #AmaraAndTheBats 400 more kiddos now know all about bats! 🥰 I'm off to Sheffield today for a fun-packed day at another school drawing bats and making comics! #kidlituk
Author Illustrator Emma Reynolds stands in a sunny school hall by a flipchart of a cartoon bat drawing demo, in front of a pull down screen with 'Let's draw a bat together' on it and the main characters from 'Amara and the Bats' drawing around a table. Emma is wearing a black t-shirt with a white bat on it and gingham blue and white leggings. She is white mid 30s and has short black cropped hair and is smiling happily holding two of her books - 'Amara and the Bats' and 'Drawn to Change the World'
March 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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For example, wish more UK people knew about this book!
Cloud Puppy cover by Kelly Leigh Miller
February 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Sweet Betty and Lyra! Thank you for all your Pet Portrait requests since I opened! I will close again next week (for a long time!) so get in quick if you'd like one 🥰🐾 I also have a mega clearance sale on the rest of my shop 🌿
#artistshop #KidLitUK #Illustration
Watercolour and coloured pencil of a black and white greyhound gentle laying down looking up on a dog bed on grass. Her name is Betty Lyra the cat watercolour and coloured pencil portrait. Lyra is a marmalade tabby top with a milky tumtum and face, green eyes, a cute pink nose and a turquoise collar. She is doing a loaf with all paws tucked in laying on grass.
February 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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🌿Mega Clearance sale in my shop! Up to 80% off!🌿

Also, pet portraits are back open for 2 weeks 🐾

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Shares super appreciated 🥰 #KidLitUK #Illustration #art #artistshop
9 grid photo collage of bat stickers, seal stickers, cute sparkly beaver stickers, beaver washi tape and sticky notes that say 'Dam, girl!' puns and Honduran white bat stationary. White husky dog and brown tabby cat smiling with eyes closed - a coloured pencil and watercolour drawing.
January 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Emma-coded characters
Amelie poster Kiki from Studio Ghibli's 'Kiki's Delivery Service' she is smiling and flying on a broom above the city, with Jiji her black cat balanced on her bag. The bird artist lady from Studio Ghibli's 'Kiki's Delivery Service' - dream career Angy determined Pikachu!
January 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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🐾Pet Portraits are back open for a limited time!🐾 Just in time for Valentine's, mother's day or a special treat 🥰💖 These will be available for a couple of weeks only then I'll be closing again 🌿
Coloured pencil and watercolour painting of a dog with a bow lying in grass called Lady Coloured pencil and watercolour painting of two cats one ginger tabby with a white tummy and one grey long haired tabby. They are sitting forwards on grass. Coloured pencil and watercolour painting of a white husky dog and a brown tabby lying down smiling, the tabby cat is showing their tummy and they both look very happy. They are called Skyler and Squiggle. Coloured pencil and watercolour painting of a small black and white doggo.
January 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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🎄♥️🦇Last Day to Order! 🥰 Sale on too!
I don't know when I'll be re-opening yet as I am focusing on book work next year :3 Thank you all so so much for all your support at conventions & online! You have got me through a very tough winter 🥰 Truly, thank you! Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year! 🎄
Seal and manatee wooden decorations hanging on a christmas tree. They are smiling and wearing christmas hats and holding a present for each other Paper envelopes with a cute bat stamp on them
December 14, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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🎄♥️🦇 Last orders for Christmas!
- Bats, nature, cute animals!
- Small one-Emma biz!
- 10% of bat enamel pins are donated to @batconservation.bsky.social

I close on Sunday for a long while 🥰 Thank you so much for your support! X
#artistshop #bats #kidlitart
Photo of cute bat enamel pin on red backing card Three wooden decorations of bats hanging upside down on a christmas tree A hand holding a pack of adorable bat bunch cards with red and white stripy string I love Moles wooden pin!
December 13, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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Packing up lots of Stocking Bats today! 🥰♥️🦇🎄 They'll be winging their way to their new homes very soon 😃 Thank you all so so much for your support - it is super appreciated! I close this Sunday 15th so get yer orders in before then :3
#artistshop #kidlitart #shopindie
Photo of wooden Christmas decorations - stockings with adorable bats peeking out from inside. They are on a note card and brown envelopes with a bat face stamped on them
December 10, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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I'll be at the #illustratorsfair24 tomorrow Sat 7th Dec at Granary Square #kingscrossn1c from 11-5pm! I'm very excited to catch up with friends 🥰♥️ This is my last event of 2024 and I am ready to hibernate like these bats after this! See you tomorrow 🦇

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Blue pencil to the side with @Illustratorsfair written on it, beside a photo of my pale hand holding a greeting card and envelope with a bunch of cosy bats smiling :3
December 6, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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Save an extra 10% across the rest of the shoppe also ends at 9pm tonight! Explore the collection here:

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Water colour and pencil illustration of a black fluffy dog with a brown mouth sitting on an armchair wearing a yellow scarf.
December 4, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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🎄LAST DAY FOR PET PORTRAITS 🥰
Watercolour & coloured pencil.
I will be closing them at 9pm this evening (Weds 4th Dec). And I'll be closing my shop fully for a good while on 15th Dec, while I focus on other projects :3 I've really loved drawing all your friends ♥️🐾 Thank you do much for your support!
Photo of my hand holding two watercolour & pencil pet portraits. One is of a black and white cat wearing an adoranle bow tie and the other is a cream fluffy dog on grass.
December 4, 2024 at 10:37 AM
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🎄It's tree time! 🥰 My Bat Stockings sustainably sourced wooden Christmas decorations are up now!

Thank you so so much to everyone for supporting me at markets and online - it means so much ❤
Use C0de: COSYBATS to save 10% - ends tonight!
#Bats #ChristmasTree #ArtistShop #ShopSmall
Photo of three bats in stockings hanging out on a Christmas tree - they are cute and smiling!
December 3, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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This was a very special portrait to do - sweet beautiful companions Skyler and Squiggle have both passed on and so I was honoured to draw this tribute to them both. Their guardian held back tears when she recieved it, so happy she loved it 🥺♥️🐾 Squiggle reminds me of my forever cat I grew up with.
Conte crayon and watercolour portrait of a tabby cat and a husky dog both laying down and smiling!
December 1, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Been drawing lots of good doggos today! 🐾

Friendly reminder that December 3rd (next Tues!) is your final day to place an order for a Pet Portrait for guaranteed UK Christmas delivs, & all international orders for everything else in my store :3 #artistshop #kidlit
Hand holding two A5 pet portraits of dogs rendered in conte crayon and watercolour
November 30, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Here for Day 2 of 3 at #MCMBirmingham 😍 I'm on Table A03 in Artist Alley.

I'm still taking Pet Portrait Commissions and have lots of cute nature things! :3
#ArtistAlley #Comics #kidlit
Me Emma Reynolds standing at my table ag Birmingham Comicon in Artist Alley giving a peace sign.
November 30, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Cosy bats in stockings 🥰🎄

Super appreciate everyone's support of my small business - it really does mean the world :)

Save 10% in my shop with code COSYBATS until 3rd Dec!
#artistshop #bats #kidlitart #illustration
Three cute stockings hanging upside down with adorable bat faces poking out underneath! They are on a Christmas tree in red blue and yellow!
November 30, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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I'm at #MCMBirmingham all weekend on table A-03! Come say hellooo tomorrow Sat and Sun 😃 I've got bats, moles, pigs, manatees, seals, more bats, and cute potatoes :3
#artistalley
MCM Comic con Birmingham table plan - Emma Reynolds (me!) is on table A03!
November 29, 2024 at 6:30 AM